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ShazamIam

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7. I have been wondering when our so called news orgs would point this out, nations did not steal jobs, our own

Sat May 3, 2025, 03:09 PM

May 3

corporations choose to send the jobs out of this country for cheap labor. They don't mention that it began way back in 1981 when the tariff rules were changed to allow low and no tariff imports to facilitate the offshoring of jobs. The tariffs were pretty much eliminated in 2001 to accelerate the movement of jobs and led directly to the economic crash of 2007/08.

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THIS !!! [View all] uponit7771 May 3 OP

Yes. And they did it after Reagan dropped the tariffs at their request. Jim__ May 3 #1

I think it was HW Bush who gave China Most Favored Nation trading status AdamGG May 3 #22

Absofuckingloutely! And largely caused the opioid epidemic SheltieLover May 3 #2

Dems should look at bringing manufacturing back to those economically tapped out areas uponit7771 May 3 #16

Funny how slobby has made no provisions to jump start mfg in US, SheltieLover May 3 #17

You know what, this is so true !!! If he wanted factories here he's should be preparing with heavy subsidies uponit7771 May 3 #24

Right. But not a word about subsidies. SheltieLover May 3 #25

Yup! SheltieLover May 4 #36

A couple of people I know, literally thought that they would be rich as soon as dump got installed. Clouds Passing May 4 #34

Covidiots! SheltieLover May 4 #37

It is stunning the level of brainwashing that has been done to people Clouds Passing May 4 #39

It most certainly is, Clouds. SheltieLover May 4 #40

Our language needs to evolve to create new adjectives and nouns that describe this phenomenon. Clouds Passing May 4 #44

Ha ha ha DU trivia SheltieLover May 4 #45

Voo doo economics? Meadowoak May 6 #51

Yup, I remember that term SheltieLover May 6 #53

People are wed to being right about Trump vs looking out what's best for Middle class uponit7771 May 4 #46

Covidiots! SheltieLover May 4 #38

No. democratic tried repeatedly,.meanwhile those same areas want to kill affirmative action and hate blue states lostnfound May 4 #43

Easier to just quote the text rather than making us shitter-averse to look at the site. erronis May 3 #3

How do we get this into the mainstream KT2000 May 3 #4

Dem politicians are enablers of the H-1B farce RandomNumbers May 3 #18

K&R Blue Owl May 3 #5

Exactly 👍 TommieMommy May 3 #6

I have been wondering when our so called news orgs would point this out, nations did not steal jobs, our own ShazamIam May 3 #7

Some corporations also outsource jobs because they can pollute and abuse workers without worry in some countries Attilatheblond May 3 #8

Trump aims to make them able to AdamGG May 3 #23

Through some good fortune, I block Twitter/X, so here it is. usonian May 3 #9

Simple conservative principles. dchill May 3 #10

modernize china, send them our factories , the rich outsourced everything and now we are paying for it. AllaN01Bear May 3 #11

Another way to say essentially the same thing. . . Stargleamer May 3 #12

This IS how Capitalism works, right... BurnDoubt May 3 #13

Yes Meowmee May 3 #14

not odd. poozwah May 3 #15

Thank you ToxMarz May 3 #19

I continue to hope one lousy reporter asks Trump why he outsourced all his products if he was so Vinca May 3 #20

Another problem that was the direct cause of - wait for it - republicans. Initech May 3 #21

I can remember my Dad, back in the Sixties, or early Seventies saying that people should " buy American". love_katz May 3 #26

One company that only sold Made in USA products: WALMART! Grins May 5 #49

! LudwigPastorius May 3 #27

China didn't 'steal' our manufacturing capability. It was GIVEN to them by our corporate CEOs over the years dalton99a May 4 #28

Yes!!! And Wall Street incentivized those actions... Grins May 4 #32

+1. It is the same mentality across the board - software development, technical support, customer service, etc. dalton99a May 4 #33

I can attest to this. Linda ladeewolf May 4 #41

Yep, joint ventures (JVs) allowed more IP to pass than what was stolen uponit7771 May 4 #47

"not found" " this page does not exist" niyad May 4 #29

See comment 9, above TommyT139 May 4 #30

My friend was solicited by an acquaintance to join him no_hypocrisy May 4 #31

When six companies own most of what Americans "know"... Kid Berwyn May 4 #35

Plus a gazillion. love_katz May 6 #52

If they did bring the jobs back, robots would do the work. Emile May 4 #42

Yep!!! They shipped the jobs when automation was more expensive now it's cheaper and more precise uponit7771 May 4 #48

Many outsourced jobs for no reason at all Johonny May 5 #50

"and CEOs are mostly morons"👈🏿👈🏿👈🏿 THIS !! There's no competition at CEO levels due to lack of diversity it's ... uponit7771 May 6 #55

Another problem is - the factories will probably go in poor communities womanofthehills May 6 #54